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Poster:	tree-ap	Date:	April 29, 2007 09:55:21am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Songs that are better in the studio

Pride of Cucamonga, if only because it was never played live at all. There are those rehearsals labeled 12/1/74:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd74-12-xx.mars-hotel.12468.sbeok.shnf

I really like these workouts of the song & it's number one in my book for songs that needed to be played that were either NOT played at all, or only played a few times, such as Let It Rock, If I Had The World To Give, Unbroken Chain, Mission In The Rain, Money Money, etc. It sounds to me like they had Pride of Cucamonga in these recordings, so I can't figure why it wasn't done at least once. I heard said that Phils "voice was shot"---I think it was on the GD Archives before they changed the sight to what it is now.

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Poster:	spacedface	Date:	April 29, 2007 04:50:59pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Songs that are better in the studio

I agree mostly except:
Black Peter (unfortunate timing often but handy for a bad trip I saw at Stanford)
Althea was best to me on Without A Net
Dire Wolf was fine though album is favorite

I like Touch of Grey better on album but the live experience (weaving through Kaiser hallways) was best in Reagan's America. It seemed more like a tribal stomp antidepressant before the album came out.

This post was modified by spacedface on 2007-04-29 23:50:59